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  “Ruffians chased us through London,” Jake said, focusing on the immediate danger to avoid thinking about his pain. His voice was constricted as he fought for control. “We don’t dare linger— they could show up at any moment.”

  Harold nodded. “The airship is ready. Rick and Miss LeClercq should be onboard by now. I asked Brant to give them the news. I thought that might be a little easier on you.” Brant Livingston was Harold’s long-time secretary, a thoroughly capable man with an almost encyclopedic knowledge of art and, occasionally, a fondness for ribald humor.

  “Then I’d better get going,” Jake said, putting on a good front with effort. He met Harold’s gaze. “Someone just tried to kill us, and now this. I’m going to get to the bottom of it.”

  “Just be careful, Jake,” Harold cautioned. “Someone out there wants something badly enough to commit murder, and if they didn’t get it from Thomas, they’re going to keep coming after you and Rick.”

  Jake closed his fist around the telegram. “That’s what I’m counting on.”

  Continue the story in Iron & Blood: A Jake Desmet Adventure

  Gail Z. Martin & Larry N. Martin

  Jake Desmet Adventure

  Iron and Blood

  Storm & Fury Adventures (Short Stories & Novellas)

  Resurrection Day

  Grave Voices

  Airship Down

  Gail Z. Martin

  Deadly Curiosities

  Deadly Curiosities

  Vendetta

  Deadly Curiosities Adventures (Short Stories)

  Vanities (1500s #1)

  Wild Hunt (1500s #2)

  Dark Legacy (1500s #3)

  Steer a Pale Course (1700s #1)

  Among The Shoals Forever (1700s #2)

  The Low Road (1700s #3)

  Buttons (2000s #1)

  The Restless Dead (2000s #1A)

  Retribution (2000s #1B)

  The Final Death* (2000s #2)

  Coffin Box (2000s #3)

  Wicked Dreams (2000s #4)

  Collector (2000s #5)

  Bad Memories (2000s #6)

  Shadow Garden (2000s #7)

  Spook House (2000s #8)

  Fatal Invitation (2000s #9)

  Redcap (2000s #10)

  *Free Novella on Wattpad for a limited time.

  Ascendant Kingdoms

  Ice Forged

  Reign of Ash

  War of Shadows

  Shadow and Flame (March 2016)

  Blaine McFadden Adventures:

  Arctic Prison | King’s Convicts I

  Ice Bound | King’s Convicts II

  No Reprieve

  Cold Fury | King’s Convicts III

  Chronicles of the Necromancer

  The Summoner

  The Blood King

  Dark Haven

  Dark Lady’s Chosen

  Coming in June 2016

  The Shadowed Path - A Jonmarc Vahanian Collection

  The Fallen Kings Cycle

  The Sworn

  The Dread

  Jonmarc Vahanian Adventures (Short Stories)

  Raider’s Curse

  Caves Of The Dead

  Storm Surge

  Bounty Hunter

  Blood’s Cost

  Stormgard

  Monstrosities

  Bad Places

  Dead Man’s Bet

  Dark Passage

  Bad Blood

  Haunts

  Cursed

  Death Plot

  Brigands

  Bleak Harvest

  Hard Choices

  Dead Reckoning

  Desperate Flight

  About the Authors

  Larry N. Martin is the co-author of the new Steampunk series Iron and Blood: The Jake Desmet Adventures and a series of short stories: The Sound & Fury Adventures set in the Jake Desmet universe. These short stories also appear in the anthologies Clockwork Universe: Steampunk vs. Aliens and Weird Wild West with more to come. Larry and Gail also have a science fiction short story in the Contact Light anthology. Gail Z. Martin is the author of the new epic fantasy novel War of Shadows (Orbit Books) which is Book Three in the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga; Iron and Blood and Vendetta: A Deadly Curiosities Novel in her urban fantasy series set in Charleston, SC. She is also author of Ice Forged and Reign of Ash in The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, The Chronicles of The Necromancer series (The Summoner, The Blood King, Dark Haven, Dark Lady’s Chosen) from Solaris Books and The Fallen Kings Cycle (The Sworn, The Dread) from Orbit Books. Gail writes two series of ebook short stories: The Jonmarc Vahanian Adventures and the Deadly Curiosities Adventures and her work has appeared in over 20 US/UK anthologies. Newest anthologies include: The Big Bad 2, Athena’s Daughters, Heroes, With Great Power and Realms of Imagination.

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